The UW Law Library maintains a growing collection of country-specific legal research guides designed to help you get started. Each guide provides an introduction to a country's legal system and government structure, and directs you to key primary and secondary sources — including constitutions, legislation, case law, legal journals, and more — available through the Law Library and online.

Whether you're working on a comparative law paper or simply trying to understand how a foreign legal system works, these guides are a great place to begin.

We've recently added four new guides to the collection:

These join our existing country and region guides for Canada, Chile, England, Germany, India, Mexico, the European Union, and South Asia.

For further help with foreign and international legal research, see the Foreign and Comparative Law Guide, among other guides related to international law, available on our complete list of research guides.

For questions about any of these guides or for help with foreign legal research, contact Sunil Rao, Foreign and International Law Librarian.

Submitted by Sunil Rao, on February 11, 2026

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